i think it would be cool if duolingo had some kind of setting that says "I am over the age of twenty-five and really truly do not need more lessons about la escuela y los maestros y los adolescentes"
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i think it would be cool if duolingo had some kind of setting that says "I am over the age of twenty-five and really truly do not need more lessons about la escuela y los maestros y los adolescentes"

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re last reblog, however:
count of monte cristo -> marseille -> the calanques -> cosquer cave
and the best part? they've made a replica in marseilles so you and i don't have to go underwater caving to see it
Unprompted the precious child turned to me and said “Mama, you know what is a terrible hobby? Cave diving.”
I count the components of my child’s lunchbox so I can evaluate which items are being consumed — so like if he’s consistently eating 2/5 strawberries maybe I mix it up in the fruits department next week and do apricots or something.
Yesterday I sent him to camp with eight crackers and he returned with ten.
OK I keep seeing people refer to the Michigan parasite outbreak and then others will chime in “it’s in my state too!” so to clarify this for everyone it is a NATIONWIDE outbreak reported in 31 US states as of today, July 12th 2026. There is no reason to assume it is not present in the rest of them
NBC News’ tally shows at least 26 states have reported cases of the parasitic stomach illness, as health authorities race to find the source
The CDC is tracking cases but they are significantly lagging behind the states on numbers (their data is weeks behind) so it’s probably going to be most effective to check your individual state’s infectious disease tracking.
This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.
It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).
Wash your hands, wash your produce, cook it ideally, and advocate for farm workers to have access to safe and hygienic toilet facilities
that last part is extra important. nearly every one of these produce outbreaks are because of poor hygenic practices on the fields, and particularly, because field workers do not have adequate access to bathrooms. nobody wants to poison your food, but they often don't have a choice. they also often lack proper access to water, cooling equipment (such as sun hats and portable fans), and management; this can make it significantly harder to think clearly and make a wise decision, let alone survive the day. when this comes up in conversation, call this out. make sure everyone around you KNOWS that the reason the lettuce is constantly unsafe is because farms are not giving a shit about worker welfare, and the people growing and picking your lettuce have to walk ungodly distances in 100+ degree weather without water just to take a shit. oh, and if they DO choose to do that, they may be punished for taking an unscheduled break.
if you wanna go further, let everyone know that the majority of labor laws have an exception carved out for agricultural workers.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are starting to talk about one facet of immigration reform: how to expand the popular H-2A visa program for farm
Worth keeping up with developments in the fight over farm workers’ visas because while trying to get legal documents for workers, agricultural producers are also trying to fight for those legal documents to have fewer human rights provisions in them

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
OK, but just a reminder: Moon Day will *not* fall on a Monday "every 7 years" as stated above. Because of leap years, things get a bit wonky. Moon Day Monday will occur four times between now (June 2026) and 2050: in July 2026, 2037, 2043, and 2048.
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My child, watching an old episode of Game Changer over my shoulder “so when do they count the rice?”
July in the California foothills: amazing palette, terrible place to wear sandals.

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Someone in my house screamed “shit ain’t comin home for fuck!” around 2 PM so I assume sowing terrible immigration policy is reaping getting to play against France?
I’m not a fan of AI but freshwater depletion (mostly from agriculture!) has been an issue at least since the eighties. We pump a lot of water out of old water tables and we don’t put a lot back. What we do put back tends to be full of fertilizer and dissolved minerals (from the trip back into the water table), and thus less healthy and harder on equipment.
It is easier to regulate AI under current US law — for now — because it is a point source instead of a non-point source like agriculture. So if you want to address the “we’re running out of freshwater” problem, what better solution than using the money of billionaires to fix things. Also, I believe that data centers require relatively uncontaminated water, and people are objecting to them getting a first pass at that water.
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Have any of your kids become machinists lately? The signs can be subtle, but they're there. Every day, thousands of children become obsessed with precisely fabricating intricate mechanical parts. Only some of them become productive members of society, like hot rod builders or railway clock engineers. Virtually all of them are lost to constructing scale-model steam engines. Concerned parents are watching for the following signs.
Police know that the first sign of affiliation into a new gang is a change in the subject's vocabulary. New words. Unfamiliar names. Did little Johnny never mention the words "locating datum" before he suddenly blurted it out by accident one night at dinner? It may be time to have a conversation with his teacher, to find out more about who he spends his time with at school. If you can get to it early enough, you can nip it in the bud.
In a similar vein, it's important to figure out where all their money is going. Kids who get hooked on the machinist lifestyle will often buy ridiculous things in order to "prove" their affiliation with the gang. One mother of two in Rhode Island came home to find a bunch of strange metallic cylinders on her doorstep, shipped overnight from FedEx to her youngest child. Round stock. She thought it was "just a phase." Her child is doing time in a federal penitentiary, after getting all fucked up on DYKEM markers and stabbing an engineer for submitting an insufficiently dimensioned drawing.
Last, an obsession with precision is often your last chance to have a talk with a wayward child. Are things in your house suddenly becoming rigidly aligned to an invisible grid system? Are you noticing things becoming burnished or otherwise polished, that weren't before? A trusted adult's timely intervention when your kid is micrometering a piece of sheet metal found in the alley may be all that is saving your kid from a lifetime of obsessing over thousandths.
With your vigilance and hard work, we can keep children from growing up to become machinists. Nobody's dream for their child should involve "estate sale full of hundreds of thousands of useless brackets."

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Setting up a new yurt for friends to live in during the summer in Inner Mongolia, China. OP has noted in comments that a yurt costs around RMB¥20K.
*Khatas are traditional, ceremonial scarves. Mongolian khatas are usually blue, symbolising the sky.
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macbeth really is such a fascinating guy because when he's thinking about doing the murder he actually sits with himself for a second and goes "if i do this, i'm signing over my immortal soul, and i'm probably going to be miserable with guilt" and then he does it and is miserable with guilt. and it makes him very very interesting! because it's not an impulse thing! he knows! so what makes a person make that choice? what amount of personal ambition, what lust for glory, what amount of wifely-pressure-fueled conception-of-masculinity-as-violence can get someone to do that?
because it isn't idiocy. he knows damn well. and none of his asides, none of his elaborate visually-fantastical speeches or deft metaphors, are the words of a blundering dumbass. personally, i think the core of macbeth is exactly what we find out before he ever steps on stage: he's a soldier, and more than that, he;s a killer. and he's extremely good at it. fuck diplomacy--basically every single problem he faces in the play is one he tries to kill his way out of, because it's the only strategy he knows. at some point, i don't even think it's just manhood-as-violence for him; it's personhood-as-violence. in 3.1 he threatens to get into the lists against fate, against the price of his own defiled soul; at the end, he resolves to go down fighting no matter what. as much as people love to joke about macbeth being foolhardy and easily-pressured and not looking more than five minutes into the future--the guy knows. but all he's ever done, all he can do, is fight. he's not a fool. he's a machine.
but also, fascination aside, what the fuck is wrong with him lmfao my guy you KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN
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I’m thinking about how this plays out in the scene where he actually seeks out and consults the witches — where he commits to evil on a large scale and is like “I don’t care how you know the future (but I assume evil), I don’t care if this process leads to the destruction of the country I rule or of the world at large (famine, loss of trade, loss of defense, loss of precious monuments ), I must know what’s going to happen.”
And then the witches are like “beware MacDuff!” and he’s like “OK great I’ll kill his family.” It’s such a WEIRD kind of myopia! He doesn’t think of how MacDuff will respond to the murder — he doesn’t think “wow I should be nice to this dude” or “wonder how I can keep him in England”, he goes straight to murdering.